Cedar Manor is helping us to reach out to international visitors with fundraising material developed in Chinese, Korean and Japanese as well as English for guests staying at the hotel.
Like many other accommodation providers in the Lake District, Cedar Manor is already fundraising for the Lake District Foundation through a scheme that adds a small voluntary donation to bills drawn up for all guests at the hotel. Altogether, 39 accommodation providers in the Lake District contributed £51,033 to the Lake District Foundation in FY2017-18, with nearly 5 per cent or £2,337 of that figure raised by Cedar Manor alone. As of November 2018, this figure is likely to rise, however, with new bespoke room browser material describing the scheme and its benefits to international guests in their native languages.
With international visitor numbers rising steadily, we are dependent on hotels and other service providers in the honeypot areas of Windermere, Grasmere, Bowness and Hawkshead in particular for ways to help visitors continue to enjoy the treasures of this unique destination without diminishing its value for both future visitors and the people who live here. In time, we hope more hotels welcoming international guests will come forward to take advantage of the kind of promotional material we have developed for Cedar Manor. With the funds we receive most recently allocated to projects to protect wildlife, clean up rivers, and champion communities, local businesses are the Lake District’s finest ambassadors, helping domestic and international visitors alike to “give back” to the Lake District, so that the Lake District can keep giving back to them.